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Black artists at PulpArtists: Robert Pious - https://www.pulpartists.com/Pious.html Elmer Stoner - https://www.pulpartists.com/Stoner.html Elton Fax - https://www.pulpartists.com/Fax.html Harper Johnson - https://www.pulpartists.com/Johnson.html Adolphe Barreaux - https://www.pulpartists.com/Barreaux.html

Real Western (April, 1946). Art by Elton Fax: Info about Elton Fax himself, including a picture of Elton Fax’s face: https://www.pulpartists.com/Fax.html

Pre-1956 black artists listed as African-American in Jerry Bails’ Who’s Who: Matt Baker Warren Broderick George Corley Elton Fax Tom Feelings Alvin Hollingsworth Ezra Jackson Harper Johnson Elmer Stoner

The “O. Middleton“ in War Heroes #5 (July, 1943) seems to have been Owen Middleton. http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20580

Well, I’ve been looking through all sorts of comics, including Westerns, from more obscure publishers, and what caught my attention and interested me included: Tom Mix Comics (Ralston-Purina Company) Blazing Western (Timor) Masked Ranger (Premier Magazines) Star Ranger (Chesler) Outlaws (D.S. Publishing) Death Valley (Comic Media) The Westerner Comics (Orbit-Wanted) Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine (Toby Press) And a particular recommendation of looking into Avon’s Western comics as well, such as Cow Puncher Comics, Frontier Romances, Geronimo, and generally any Westerns drawn by Everett Kinstler.

Charles Nicholas Lou Fine Joe Simon Pierce Rice Edd Ashe Larry Antonette Sam Cooper Al Carreno Chuck Cuidera Roland Patenaude Louis Cazeneuve Allen Ulmer Charles Quinlan Phil Bard Sol Brodsky Alan Mandel Robert Golden Sol Brodsky Elmer Stoner Gerald Altman Louis Ferstadt Jack Kamen Al Fago Ted Galindo

Hillman Periodicals: Harry Anderson (Air Fighters Comics #1, November 1941): Harry Sahle (Air Fighters Comics #3, December 1942): John Giunta (Air Fighters Comics #v2#2, November 1943): Fred Kida (Airboy Comics #v2#12, January 1946): Maurice Del Bourgo (Clue Comics #11, December 1946): Orestes Calpini (Punch and Judy Comics #v2#5, December 1946): Arthur Peddy (Airboy Comics #v4#4, May 1947): Clement Weisbecker (Airboy Comics #v5#12, January 1949): Ernest Schroeder (Airboy Comics #v8#11, December 1951): Gerald McCann (Frogman Comics #7, January 1953):

Fred Guardineer (Clue Comics #12, February 1947):

Bob Fujitani (Air Fighters Comics #7, April 1943):

John Cassone (Clue Comics #3, March 1943):

Al Camy (Air Fighters Comics #v1#4, January 1943):

John Prentice (Western Fighters #v3#2, January 1951):

John Prentice and Bill Ely:

Gerald McCann‘s art seems to have so much heaving inking, that the art can look gloomy even when it’s not meant to (Dead-Eye Western Comics #12, October 1950):

Gerald McCann (Dead-Eye Western Comics #12, October 1950):

Gerald McCann (Airboy Comics #107, January 1953):

Gerald McCann (Airboy Comics #100, June 1952):

Mort Lawrence (Crime Detective Comics #7, March 1949):

Mort Lawrence (Airboy Comics #99, May 1952):

Racist-based merchandise that compelled them enough to capitalize on in terms of business apparently, seeing as how they slapped on a 10 cent value listing on there.

From Real Clue Crime Stories #v5#8 (October, 1950):